Funny you should say that, I was at photobucket today and my virus detector said there was a trojan attack, and I couldn't figure out were it was coming in at. I don't get viruses,,, I run constant survelliance on my comp. so I didn't really get anything but it sure sounded the alarms, hmmm, someone could have planted a bug on there site tho. or it could have beeen in a picture they uploaded.

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When you use a free service, you apt to get all kinds of "free" stuff. Unfortunately, to use the internet at all, you are exposing yourself at some level. As previously stated, the best defense is a good anti-virus/firewall.

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It was an ad that held your computer hostage until you allowed it to scan your computer for viruses, supposedly. What it would really do is install a virus. Only the ones allowing it to scan received the virus. The ones force closing the computer and rebooting did not get the virus. It was corrected yesterday afternoon and there is no problem now, unless the hacker comes back.

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I've had a photobucket account since jan 05 and logged in on average daily without so much as a blip on my antivirus/firewall software. They have added some adds lately but to get a virus from that you'd have to click one or click a pop up. Alot of people get viruses by falling for popups that say your computer is infected with something. Then when you click remove or scan it actually installs the virus. You have to be smarter than the adware and virus makers. I do have a habit of finding tricky websites that get me viruses though. Without security software I killed an xp install in less than 2weeks. Personally I go with avg for virus, comodo firewall, and ad-aware with this copy of xp being clean for 5months(new record!). Insert "secure" followed by your os "xp", "vista" etc into google or your favorite search engine and you'll find many sites listing the latest software and don't forget to turn your pop up blocker on. If your security is so low you can get something from photobucket you can get something from about any site and it may be a tracking cookie saved on your computer that's doing it automatically instead of the site your actually loading.